I stand corrected. Mahoosive enough to acknowledge.
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Including variants, yes there are over 100. Core ships/vehicles there are over 60
Including variants, yes there are over 100. Core ships/vehicles there are over 60
No, you have to share with the mahoosive amount of art assets on the planets which is so much it beggars belief - but what can you do for 10 years if the rest of the company can't figure out the gameplay and networking backbone.
Yes, I know Mole, I'm being unfair again. Not really though, 10 years is just a nice mark to test progress against. I hope the mining dude make more of the gameplay that actually works. And if the rate of speed gain looks so utterly mahoosive now that Chris Robbers has been sent off that is because the speed before was not just glacial but even regressive at times.
SA guys think this might be more than a passing oopsie…
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/q7nynq/helmet_animations_oh_nevermind/
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/q7nynq/helmet_animations_oh_nevermind/
TerribleGoon1 said:
TerribleGoon2 said:
I think that’s because they don’t realize that good gameplay is hard but “cheap.” Good art assets are “easy” but expensive.
I used quotes here because good engineers may be payed more than good artists are, and talent and/or practice is of course needed for good art, but the ratio of artists to engineers rises precipitously as the quality of art rises. That’s why most game development studios wait until the end of the project to do the art and assets, relying on white boxes and trial art to test the core systems with.
I think we can put that to the rest of the nollocks, like 1000 players per instance. It's Robbers waffling and he is gone now. If this mess is ever to "pick up speed and come together" in any form there is going to be more ballast overboard with more Chadwick, Tony and Tyler waffling to appease the rabid fanatics, until their waffling has become equally dispensable when the audience shifts to more sanity.
There are actually about that many at 'flight ready' status. If you exclude the skin variants, exactly 100 in fact. And with the 400i that's 101 now I guess:
Source: https://twitter.com/ColMovers/status/1403324199360401414
That's a lotta assets. (If not always a lot of promised game mechanics)
The missing ones are mainly the big complex expensive ones.
This. Very much this.
144 types of ships sold. Its quite clear what has kept funding going, but also explains where a lot of time as been consumed. For years we saw CIG adding new ships when the game was already suffering from inflated scope to keep the sales coming in. They became hooked on huffing JPGs to keep the money addiction going. Each ship will be a ball and chain around the developers collective necks as they progress (as we can see with the big ships they can't deliver yet). Many of those ships don't have the gameplay they were designed for.
Also, i'm sure we can look forward to forum classics like:
When will CIG add more ships? There aren't enough!
Why does the X exist? Nobody flies it?
Buff the X! Nerf the Y!
Hey weren't just recently proudly reporting they got the helmet carrying finished now?
His advertisement for the Tobii 4C for ED certainly prompted me to go buy one a few years ago. He showed it's use in my favourite game...which was more relevant to me than trolling around the Tobii website.
And for the record: Just because your personal moral standards are low that doesn't mean there isn't a high ground out there.
They still have to refactor all the ships to add the pipes for the virtual air to flow through. Unless that has now been dropped. Maybe that was actually what caused some sort on internal shakeup when Chris went and told the artists and modellers they had to redo all the ships and the devs had to code virtual air flowing through virtual pipes. Maybe CR reported to Calders the ship refactor was going to add another 12 months to the release of SQ24 because they want fires to spread on ships based on where the virtual air was located. I presume at some meeting some dev stuck up their hand and said "Why don't we just abstract it away with 1 for air in room and 0 for no air in the room?" and CR immediately fired them for being an American't making HR have to find a new specialist when that guy was actually important and useful.
On that topic...
Jobs
With multiple US and European offices, CIG employs the gaming industry’s most talented people on its most exciting project, the Star Citizen space SIM
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Number of open positions has gone up in recent months, now at 124. Wow, outstanding positions for 17% of their current staffing level. That's crazy.
So many artist and designer positions. Oh, they need a forum moderator in Germany! Anyone want to apply?
Refund was made on a discretionary basis.... at the discretion of the court, not CIG's.
It’ll be interesting if they do dump the materials madness, for sure.
I would note that they’re still talking full Crobblers though (despite his apparent downsizing). The single shard, 'dynamic server meshing' etc, all of these things are still declared aims (despite the current work being far more prosaic).
All of the latest PU additions are declared to be "Chris Robert’s vision" repeatedly, and cling to the shape of his grandiose plans (Death of a Spaceman leg breaks and the like).
And the roadmap isn’t exactly lacking in Chris-flavoured follies…
They may be breaking from Chris’s traditions in actually getting some 'end game' features out of the door. But it seems they’re going dance to the beat of his drum for a while to come yet…
They’re way ahead of you commando…
Source: https://www.twitter.com/ColMovers/status/1446906353092530178
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The point is, a pocket Carrier would be nice. Not as expensive, not that much of an upkeep.Not sure why ED needs more imaginary ships - we already have the Panther Clipper
If you already have a name for it, that's cool.
Looking at how the ships are stacked i got a Battle of the Planets vibe, that they would combine and then transform into the Firey Phoenix!
What do you think, they lived the good life with Robbers. 10 years of checks cashed without much to deliver.It’ll be interesting if they do dump the materials madness, for sure.
I would note that they’re still talking full Crobblers though (despite his apparent downsizing). The single shard, 'dynamic server meshing' etc, all of these things are still declared aims (despite the current work being far more prosaic).
All of the latest PU additions are declared to be "Chris Robert’s vision" repeatedly, and cling to the shape of his grandiose plans (Death of a Spaceman leg breaks and the like).
And the roadmap isn’t exactly lacking in Chris-flavoured follies…
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxZLwy8JyKA&t=36m45s
They may be breaking from Chris’s traditions in actually getting some 'end game' features out of the door. But it seems they’re going dance to the beat of his drum for a while to come yet…
They’re way ahead of you commando…
Source: https://www.twitter.com/ColMovers/status/1446906353092530178
There is a major blocker and that was when they couldn#t figure out how to route the HVACS through the door systems and logic.They still have to refactor all the ships to add the pipes for the virtual air to flow through. Unless that has now been dropped. Maybe that was actually what caused some sort on internal shakeup when Chris went and told the artists and modellers they had to redo all the ships and the devs had to code virtual air flowing through virtual pipes. Maybe CR reported to Calders the ship refactor was going to add another 12 months to the release of SQ24 because they want fires to spread on ships based on where the virtual air was located. I presume at some meeting some dev stuck up their hand and said "Why don't we just abstract it away with 1 for air in room and 0 for no air in the room?" and CR immediately fired them for being an American't making HR have to find a new specialist when that guy was actually important and useful.
On that topic...
Jobs
With multiple US and European offices, CIG employs the gaming industry’s most talented people on its most exciting project, the Star Citizen space SIM
Number of open positions has gone up in recent months, now at 124. Wow, outstanding positions for 17% of their current staffing level. That's crazy.
So many artist and designer positions. Oh, they need a forum moderator in Germany! Anyone want to apply?